Appointed Continents

Pink Cloud - Cobalt Cloud:  Morning

What do you do

the day

after

the holidays

?

Early birds at the Beach

Ships keep their appointed rounds,

charted on some desk far away,

to meet a shipment,

itself in movement

to that meeting,

plotted in a

different office

on a different

continent.

Hawaiians of old

sailed in double-hulled,

two-masted canoes

following the stars:

arriving

departing

founding kingdoms;

Bringing new ideas

and plants,

like bloggers

of the sea.

Steersman steer,

call the stroke;

ride along

you lazy bum!

" Day After?"

Wonders dear Birdy.

"Isn't TODAY All? "

" The creation

of the world

did not take place

once

and for all time,

but

takes place

every day. "

Samuel Beckett

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Who am I

to disagree

particularly

during the 

dying embers

of another

year. . .

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Plain-Clothes Santa

A   L   O   H   A  !

" When we are humble

 everyone is a potential best friend 

and our generosity naturally grows.

 We want to do things, to help out. 

A wonderful Zen tradition 

is called "inji-gyo,"

 or secret good deeds. . .

- Secret good deeds.
 They are so much fun. 
In their doing 
you can't help but 
smile. "

Geri Larkin 
 "Tap Dancing in Zen"

As usual,

plain-clothes Santa

gave gift baskets

to indigents

on the Honolulu

streets,

and to the Mission.

Plain-clothes Santa

is a nice Jewish boy,

just like Jesus.

" Summer set
 lip
 to earth's bosom
 bare,

 And left the flushed
 print 
in a poppy 
there. " 

 Francis Thompson 
 "The Poppy," 1891

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Hawaiian Christmas

M e l e     K a l i k i m a k a !

Here we know

that Christmas

Will be Clean

 and Bright !

[ decorated boats ]

Hawaiian Christmas Tree

Of course,

it takes All Kinds:

May ALL

YOUr Holiday Wishes

Come True!

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Magical Time of Dreams

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Christmas Eve in Waikiki

A L O H A !

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Deep Aloha Daniel Inouye, Son of the Islands

A L O H A !

It's Been a tough week.

 Of course, the holidays are what they are.

Then the intolerable evil in Connecticut.  

Such shared, deep grief.  .  .

But then we in Hawaii 

suffered an unprecedented hurt,
somehow a very personal one, 

on deep and shallow levels.

 I can remember no shared,
 genuinely shared, grief

 like this passing of a
 giant leader,

 hero,

 beloved son of these islands.

The mood reminds me
of JFK's assassination
all those years ago.
Hawaii is in shock.

For most of us

he has ALWAYS

been with us,

protecting us.

Watching average Hawaii folks

 wait in line, 

to file past his flag draped coffin

 for 7 hours Saturday night,

was really moving.

Dignitaries, like these Hawaiians of
Royal Societies
 pay respects to an honorary member
and friend.

When tall soldiers moved the coffin

out of the State Capitol

at midnight

over 100 citizens

still waited in line

to pay their

respects.

Watching the preparations
for his Sunday funeral
from my window

[over in the national cemetery
 at Punchbowl Crater]

I feel a loss, an emptiness larger

 than one family's loss. 

National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
[ LINK ]
[ shot from my window ]

Hawaii feels hollow,

uncertain today. 

Crack of 19 cannons in salute,
one less than a
president gets.
 I shot the smoke
rising. . . . 

Since statehood 

till this month,

was the Dan era.

This must have been

what it was like

back in earlier times

when

 a much loved king
passed into
history.

Missing Man Formation

After the ceremony,
President Obama & Michelle
visited the grave of 
Stanley Dunham,
Barack's grandfather
who helped to raise 
our President.
Mr. Dunham was
a WWII veteran
like Dan Inouye.
Several of Uncle Dan's
wartime comrades
attended.






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Day or Night

A   L   0   H   A  !

D A Y -

or Night - 

Friends are Best !

The Italian word for wisdom, 

"sapienza" 

comes from "sapia,"

 Latin for taste. 

"I taste 

therefore I know,"

  Ralph Vaughn Williams

  "Oh Taste and See."

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